In 2005, near the beginning of the MP3 audio book craze, the New York Times charmingly detailed the listening habits of New York authors, who dabbled in Dostoyevsky as they strolled around with their ...

As a child I spent every summer with my nose in a book. Each year I looked forward to summer library loans, which back then allowed you to keep books for several months – instead of a couple of weeks ...

So what did you read this summer? Chances are, more and more of you listened instead. According to the American Association of Publishers, audio book sales grew by 20 percent last year. The largest ...

Reading books can be a thoroughly rejuvenating experience, something that not only refreshes the mind but heals the soul of the reader as well. Unfortunately, not everyone has the privilege or the ...

Brittany Lowry has devoured more than 80 books this year. The twist? The social-media creator in Alberta, Canada, hasn’t read a word. “I count them as books I’ve read,” Lowry, 34, said of her ...

This summer, as you’re taking that long road trip or lying out on the surface of your choice — sandy beach, hammock, lounge chair — you can keep up on your reading without ever cracking open a book.

Switching from the page to the eardrums offers more than a few changes to the experience of taking in the written word. Any activity that involves you staring at something up close for an extended ...

Like many adults these days, I struggle to find time to really immerse myself in a book. I often attend my beer and book club without quite having finished the month’s selection, or end up powering ...

Each time I put forth my inquiry "how can we listen to books?", I am met with the obvious, "audio books". I then proceed to rephrase, pointing towards "listening to printed books", and in that second ...

A recent New York Times opinion piece by Daniel Willingham addressed the question of whether listening to a book is the same as reading it. Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, ...